Tag: Danaerys Targaryen

Some believe that a real master storyteller is a puppet master of plot twists, someone with plot threads knotted so tightly only he himself could untangle them. Others believe that effective storytelling can be a matter of inevitability: character arcs plummeting directly down into their most fateful conclusions—that it doesn’t ruin the story to see the dark tunnel into which a Walter White brand of hero-turned-villain is headed. Instead, it’s a matter of the getting there, not the beginning or the end but right in harrowing thick of it, the point at which characters make critical choices.

Spoilers incoming!

Game of Thrones has drawn some criticism this season for Danaerys Targaryen’s character arc; several trending Buzzfeed articles have lamented that the narrative appears to be making Dany into a villain, following in her father’s legacy of tyranny. (We can assume that this reaction to episode four specifically has to do with her seeming disregard for the innocents in the Red Keep—you know, the ones Cersei is using as human shields.)

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International sensation Stephen King also seems to think that Dany is hurtling towards a grim conclusion: her own death, a fate that we can assume awaits many of our favorites. But Dany has been a fan-favorite since the beginning, right along with Jon Snow. For countless episodes, fans have expected that either Jon or Dany would end up on the Iron Throne; their relationship then seemed to be the best possible outcome, a chance for BOTH desired outcomes to take place. But the King of horror seems to think it’ll be NEITHER.

Suppose–just suppose, now–that Jon and Dani BOTH died (along with Cersei, of course). Suppose–just suppose–that a certain little man with a big heart ended up sitting on the Iron Throne?

Naturally, King drew some fire for this remark. Nobody wants their favorite characters to die, particularly because we all know we got lucky with “The Long Night.” (Now, of course, we know Brienne had to survive in order to break our hearts with her Jaime plot in episode 4.) But King fired back:

Of course for years some people have told me I don’t know how to end a story. I call bullshit on that, but everyone has an opinion.
🙂

Who’s telling King he doesn’t know how to end a story, and can they please stop?

Of course, fans were quick to point out that if Tyrion were to sit on the Iron Throne, Sansa would likely join him in ruling over the Seven Kingdoms. Their conversation in the crypts during episode 3 serves to remind the audience that they were, in fact, still married (and, of course, to drench us in nostalgia for how simple things were once as the dead rise around them). To some extent, this makes sense: Sansa and Dany’s rivalry might make this a satisfying ending, and the show has been clearly demonstrating Sansa’s rise to power and ability to command respect.

Some think this would be a satisfying conclusion; a popular fan theory may be that Arya will kill Cersei using Jaime’s face, but Twitter has pointed out that Sansa (after dealing with Joffrey) may have more reason to hate Cersei. Other fans think King could be correct due to a line that could be foreshadowing. While many assumed that just woman would be Danaerys, ‘just’ may no longer be the right choice of words as her hunger for power has increasingly revealed itself.

“What if the Seven Kingdoms, for once in their whole shit history, were ruled by a just woman and an honorable man.”

We may not know what exactly will happen in the series’ penultimate episode, but we can be certain about at least one thing: no matter who ends up on the Iron Throne, it’s gonna be a f*cking brutal endeavor to get there.

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